Celebrating Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Knitting Legacy

Come Celebrate With Us at Village Knitters (click that link for more info….)

Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Knitting Legacy Aug 9, 1910 – Nov 30, 1999

100 Year anniversary!

August 9th – 6 to 9 pm! An evening of Demos, sharing EZ stories and trivia. Please wear your favorite EZ inspired garment to this event – we would all love to admire!

Demos include –

EPS (Elizabeth’s Percentage System) explained – a percentage method for designing one’s own sweater – seamlessly!,

A-B-C-SJ (Adult, Baby, Child’s Surprise Jacket) explained! – a garter stitch, reversible sweater with no side or armhole seams!,

KNITTING IN THE ROUND – seamlessly!, (I believe you are getting the picture here!)

CONTINENTAL KNITTING with two colors – in the Scandinavian tradition,

the famously applied I-CORD CAST-OFF including secret buttonholes – quite the finish,

AFTERTHOUGHT HEELS – literally!, and more.

Check out our class schedule for EZ inspired classes: Seamless Shoulder Shapings, Baby Surprise Jacket, Color Workshop, Going Seamless – Converting Flat patterns to Seamless Knits in the Round, Knitting Your First Basic Sweater,

Lastly – Pre-order your Elizabeth Zimmermann books at the Village Knitters for classes and your personal library and receive a signed bookplate from Meg Swansen (EZ’s brilliant daughter)!

Next Pattern:

As I write this, it’s probably time to start thinking about winter knitting if you haven’t already. And it’s definitely time to think about gift knitting if you have any of that you plan to do for the holidays.

The Dreamy Waves Scarf from Knit Picks, designed by Stacey Winklepleck, would be a great project to go in either category.

It uses two different multicolored yarns and a simple repeating wave pattern to make a project that looks a lot more complicated and dramatic than it is. The gradient look happens naturally just by switching which yarn you’re knitting with.

This pattern uses worsted weight yarn so it’s a pretty quick project even though a scarf is large and this one is pretty wide. It measures 8.5 inches (21.5 cm) wide and 63 inches or 120 cm long. Of course you can make it longer or shorter as you like. As written it takes one ball of each color so it’s a pretty economical project, too.

It’s rated for intermediate knitters but if you know how to do various increases and decreases you’ll be all set. The pattern uses knit 2 together, make 1 left and right, centered double decrease and slip slip knit. All of the stitches are explained in a glossary in the pattern so even if you haven’t done all of them it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

The pattern also includes tons of options for different colorways in yarn that Knit Picks sells, so you can see how different combinations knit up before you buy the yarn. That’s such a great idea!

Of course if you already have two multicolored yarns with long color runs on hand, you can absolutely use them, too. It might also be fun, but would give you a totally different look, to use a solid color and a bunch of scraps or one multicolored yarn to see how the different colors play together. So many options!

You can grab this free pattern and check out all the color options at Knit Picks.

[Photo: Knit Picks]

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